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Which countries and people have been affected by the current Ebola outbreak?

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Tests are being run on a woman in Albuquerque to see if she has the Ebola virus.

The Ebola outbreak has killed more than a thousand people.

In Liberia, an angry crowd raided an Ebola isolation ward.

Some people in Liberia think that Ebola is a

hoax by the WHO to get money.

10 patients infected with the virus have fled a treatment center and disappeared.

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In which areas of the world do you think humanitarian workers are most at risk?

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Tests are being run on an ill woman at an Albuquerque hospital to see if she has the Ebola virus. She had recently been in West Africa where the outbreak has killed more than a thousand people. In Monrovia, Liberia there are new fears after an Ebola quarantine center was overrun. CBS’s Deborah Patta. An angry crowd, many of them armed with clubs, raided an Ebola isolation ward in the city’s

largest slum. They were shouting that Ebola did not exist and was a hoax by the Liberian president to get money. The mob looted the clinic removing contaminated medical items and soiled bedding. Over 20 patients infected with the virus fled the treatment center and disappeared into the crowded city. Health officials are terrified the infection could now spread across the entire area.

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According to a new report, for plenty of us the nest egg is an empty nest. Live to CBS’s Gary Nunn. Steve, the retirement nest egg amounts to a goose egg for a lot of people among those 65 and older Banrate.com finds. One in seven senior citizens, 14%, have not saved anything for retirement. Bankrate chief financial analyst Greg McBride

says the numbers are also troubling among middle agers. It starts to get alarming when we look at 30 to 49-year-olds. One third of that age group have not started saving anything for retirement. The main reasons given for not putting money aside are cost of living and day-to-day expenses.

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He may have been struggling with depression but Robin Williams in the months before his suicide recorded a heartfelt video message for a 21-year-old New Zealand woman, Vivian Waller, terminally ill with cancer. She had always wanted to meet him. Hi Vivian, it’s Robin Williams here, I’m saying hey girl, what’s going on down

there in New Zealand? Sending all my love to you, Jack and Sophie. Mark this off your bucket list. I said hey, hey, hey, what’s going on? It’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright, I’m just channeling Matthew McConaughey. Much love to you baby. Waller’s husband Jack says she was thrilled to see that, but he hasn’t told her about his death.

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They devote their lives to make a difference and increasingly, as we hear from CBS’s Gary Nunn, humanitarian workers make the ultimate sacrifice. Seventy-nine workers have died this year, a study released to mark World Humanitarian Day finds, 2013 the most dangerous year ever for humanitarian workers, 155 were

killed, 171 seriously wounded, 134 kidnapped, all trying to help others in some of the world’s most dangerous places including Afghanistan, Syria, South Sudan, Sudan and Pakistan. Attacks involving explosives are on the increase, more than one half of all violent incidents involved ambushes or roadside attacks.

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Thanks to technology reading isn’t what it used to be, and that may not be a good thing. Here’s CBS’s Jim Cheveney. If you like to read from an electronic device like a Kindle, iPad or even your PC, you may be losing something along the way. Norwegian researchers say e-readers can make it harder to absorb details from what’s being read. They

had people read both electronically and from printed books and found those who used the e-readers performed significantly worse when asked to relay a story’s events in the correct order. They think the act of turning a page and knowing how much of the book is left causes the reader to absorb more information.

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If you haven’t been challenged yet it may not be long. Everyday people and big names continue to get dumped on. Among the latest celebrities to take the ALS Ice Bucket challenge is retiring New York Yankie star Derek Jeter and CBS News chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer. One, two, three, whoa. When he recovered he passed it on. I want to challenge David Rhodes who is the president of CBS News, and I can’t resist, also Scott Pelley. The social media challenge has raised more than $10 million for ALS

research in less than a month. Bill Witney, CBS News. Before he got wet Derek Jeter challenged his girlfriend, the model Hannah Davis, the actor Kevin Connelly and NBA legend Michael Jordan. John Ham and Halle Berry headline star power for next month’s Stand Up to Cancer events, that’s going to air on 31 broadcast and cable TV networks all at the same time. That’s the roundup, I’m Steve Kathan, CBS News.

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